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UNESCO Chair for the Study of
The Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University has founded the UNESCO Chair for the Study of Culture and Religion on the 15th September 1999 with the help of the UNESCO Commission. This event was based on the program “Roads of the Faith”. The first recruitment of the students for their speciality “The religion knowledge” took place in 1999. The scientific research center on the education of the world cultures and theology as well as the Center of Greek civilization “Ellas” are structural subdivisions of this Chair. The actual Chairholder is Prof. Podkuiko Urii Vladimirovich. The training of specialists in the field of the religion knowledge and of the work on the development in the intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in a multi-ethnic and pluri-religious State constitutes one of the goals of this Chair.
One of the main objectives of the Chair is the training of specialists who then will be able to witness the evolution of the situation which has been formed between various currents within the Republic with a spirit of peace and tolerance. Another objective is to study the role and dynamics of cultural, spiritual and religious factors in the formation of the national identity of Kyrgyzstan, as well as the development of measurements of prevention of the intercultural and inter-religious conflicts within the Republic. The Chair “The religion knowledge” has an educative role within the Faculty of international relations. The good choice of the teaching staff and the executives is a decisive factor for the acquisition of a high level of teaching and education of the students. The students take an active part in the conferences and the seminars through the UNESCO Chair at a national and international level. They have their own publications and collections of articles. The students involve themselves in a scientific research task. Students with their major in “religion knowledge” go abroad for exchange projects with other students from different countries. They also have the possibility of joining organizations that care about international problems and offer them practical experience.
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